TRIPS (The Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System) is a revolutionary new microprocessor architecture being built in the
Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at
Austin. The team's goal is to produce a scalable architecture that
can accelerate industrial, consumer, embedded, and scientific
workloads, reaching trillions of calculations per second on a single
chip.

The TRIPS project is developing a new class
of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures
called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures.

The first EDGE architecture is called TRIPS, and has been designed at the University
of Texas at Austin. The TRIPS prototype will offer higher instruction-level concurrency,
and thus higher potential performance, than current industrial processors, with no changes
to the programming model.

The TRIPS team is currently bringing-up first-silicon in the lab,
and is developing the software needed to evaluate this new class of architectures on embedded, streaming,
scientific, and desktop workloads. For more information, please send e-mail to cart@cs.utexas.edu.

The TRIPS architecture is composed of many copies of a small number of
replicated tiles, reducing complexity and improving ease of design.
Analogies in nature abound, such as the multiple independent eyes that
make up the compound eye of a fly.